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Quotes by Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
O happy life! life hid with Christ in God! So making me At home and by the wayside and abroad, Alone with Thee.— filed under Christian Life
I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?— filed under Selfishness
"Cheerfully and gratefully I lay myself and all I am or own at the feet of Him who redeemed me with His precious blood, engaging to follow Him, bearing the cross He lays upon me." This is the least I can do, and I do it while my heart lies broken and bleeding at His feet.— filed under Self-Surrender
Lay hold on Christ with both your poor, empty hands.— filed under Trust In Christ
No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.— filed under Truth
It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.— filed under Following Jesus
Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys - sickness destroying the flavor of them all-did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him- this is all. Suffering is my gain; I bow— filed under Suffering
Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.— filed under Suffering
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius. You cannot will to possess the spirit of Christ, that must come as His gift; but you can choose to study His life, and to imitate it.— filed under Will